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Reports from Haiti have indicated that the Al Mahdi Centre, in Port au
Prince, the city hardest hit during the earthquake, has been completely
destroyed.The centre which is located in the South Side of the City has a
school with 200 resident and non-resident children, a small masjid, library and
a farm (under worked). Seven Children have died. The houses of the founder, Brother Shu’ayb Brioche, along with those of most of the community members have also been completely destroyed.
The AhlulBayt Islamic Mission (AIM) today released its annual Muharram
message in which it stressed the need to draw lessons from the message of Imam
Hussain (a) in tackling the challenges facing the Ummah. As we stand today in the divine ambience of the month of Muharram, we seek to
connect to that ever-flowing source of principle and instruction that is Imam
Hussain’s grand revolution; a revolution which forever changed the course of
Islam and humanity. The revolution of Imam Hussain which once awoke the slumbering hearts of the
Muslim Ummah continues to stand tall as the supreme paradigm of individual
responsibility and social awakening.
Verily we are from Allah and to Him do we return. It is with deep sadness and grief that the AhlulBayt Islamic Mission offers its condolences to the Imam of our time and the Ummah at large on the demise of his Eminence Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Behjat (may Allah elevate his status). The Grand Ayatollah who was revered by millions of followers, passed away in the holy city of Qum. Having suffered from heart problems, his eminence sadly departed this world towards the higher abode on Sunday 17th May 2009. 
Saudi security forces have raided the house of popular Shia scholar, Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr, and detained him in a yet unknown location. Early in the morning of Monday 16th March, Saudi internal security twice raided the house of the Sheikh, located in Al-Awwamiyyah in the Eastern Province, following which all contact with him was lost. The imprisonment of Sheikh Al-Nimr was expected after his harsh words directed towards the government in which he condemned the aggressions against Shia citizens in Madina. Sheikh Al-Nimr had also challenged the government directive that refrained Shias from performing congregational prayers on Friday in Al-Awwamiyyah. This flagrant attack against a popular Shia leader is indicative of the new modus operandi of the kingdom towards its Shia population in the aftermath of the clashes in Madina in which four Shia citizens were killed.
The AhlulBayt Islamic Mission (AIM) today released a statement of condemnation for the biased decision of the BBC not to air a fund-raising appeal for the victims of the Gaza crisis. In the statement, AIM said: 'The decision by the BBC to prohibit a humanitarian campaign from being aired on a public service is despicable and underlines at the very least, its’ acquiescence in the face of Israeli pressure thus making the BBC complicit in Zionist aggressions.'
It is with deep regret that we are yet again witnessing the hands of wickedness perpetrate heinous crimes against the most basic values known to man since the beginning of time – the right to be. On the 19th June 2008, bodies of Shia Muslim villagers from Parachinar in Pakistan were found brutally murdered, after having been beheaded, burnt and mutilated by local Taliban affiliated militias. The perpetrators adhere to a crooked ideology known as Wahhabism; the official sect practiced in Saudi Arabia.
Two human rights activists, detained in December 2007 demonstrations in Bahrain, collapsed on 26 March 2008, after three days of hunger strike. Ahmed Jaffer and Isa Al-Sarah were reportedly taken to the hospital after they fainted. The detainees are protesting against the bad prison conditions and treatment meted
out by security guards, and calling for medical treatment urgently required by
some detainees. The detainees have not been visited by the medical team assigned by the judge in the court session of 17 March 2008, to carry out necessary examination of the detainees and to investigate whether the detainees were tortured while they were held at the Criminal Investigation Bureau. The medical team is to present their report to the judge during the next trial session scheduled to be held on 16 April 2008.
The AhlulBayt Islamic Mission regrets to see the manner in which the media has misconstrued the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and today called on the media to adhere to the most basic standards of ethics and responsibility. AIM considers the recent cycle of responses to the Archbishop's comments as indicative of a culture of media sensationalism that delimits any rational discourse on any matters whose subject or implications have to do with Islam. AIM further stated that the current climate which allows the media to act in this divisive way is either a miscalculation or a deliberate attempt to raise tensions and displace the bonds that keep British society vibrant and healthy.
